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I never used one, plus my guy hated being swaddled. He sleeps great in just fleece footed pj's (cotton alone does not work for us). With the house between 65-70 at night he does fine without one.

I am also with @HLK208: a&a are great in the fall/spring and babydeedee is great in the winter!

I would start with cotton. We liked the summer one. You can also double up with a muslin or flannel blanket for warmth.

I used SwaddleMes (from Summer Infant) when DS was tiny, then I switched to Halo with swaddle wings. I love both!

We are using the Halo fleece sacks since it's winter here. She sleeps equally fine in the cotton ones. And once I forgot to pack her sleep sack and she slept fine without it

I forgot to mention - I'd do cotton. LO sleeps in a thin gown, socks & cotton sleepsack swaddle & is plenty warm, though we keep the heat up. But for SIDS they say better a little too cold than too hot. If you think they need to be warmer, do a fleece sleeper under the sleepsack.

I love the fleece halo sacks for winter. I have a baby dee dee that I want to try on particularly cold nights, but am worried he'd have to adjust to it... sleep is precious!

we co bed but my LO spends the first part of the night in her crib. We started doing this at 6 months, so I'm not sure about younger babies/ swaddling (which we never did).
But we found that the Halo sacks weren't warm enough, even with fleece PJS (we are in Vermont, so near you! We live in an old building, so the bedroom can get chilly when the door is closed). We got a baby deedee sack and that keeps her warm.
I imagine when its a bit warmer out we may go back to the fleece one.

If I'd planned ahead I would have gotten a wool one. They are expensive but last forever (and fit for like 3 years) and are good in almost all weather. But at that point I"d spent so much on "stuff to help her sleep" that I just couldn't justify the price tag. But I would seriously look into wool sleep sacks. They seem awesome.

We started as an newborn with the A+A muslin wraps as a swaddle and they worked great. Not too hot in Aug in FL.

When she started daycare she still was swaddled but they wouldn't use a blanket so we tried the swaddle sacks. The Halo ones were nice and the other ones were crap (the pocket at the bottom let her kick it off).

After that in the winter we moved to something like the GroBags which was a great transition from the swaddle. Kinda like the weight of the Magic Sleep Suit, the weight of it helped her sleep and she slept great in the crib.

Later in the spring when it warmed up we tried using lighter weight sleep sacks and she just never cared for them so we stopped using them.

I had a very small baby and she was able to scrunch herself down so her head was completely covered by the Halo newborn sleepsack. We stopped using it and used receiving blankets and the Moms on Call swaddling blanket.

I used miracle blanket for swaddling and then baby deedee. I liked the A&A, but the zipper broke on both of mine, so I wouldn't recommend! I think fleece is too staticky, so I would recommend cotton/quilted cotton.

For swaddling as newborns, we used A&A blankets. Once they started busting out of those but still needed to be swaddled, we switched to the Zipadeezip sacks. After they started trying to stand in their cribs and move around a lot, we moved to A&A sleep sacks and that's what they still use now at 1 year.

@LovelyPlum: M was born in April and I bought a cotton Halo swaddle and it worked great. If your baby runs cold you can always put footed sleepers on LO. If baby runs hot then just a onesie

We use the Halo sleep sacks and love them. From day 1 DD hated being swaddled arms in so the Halo actually stays on with her arms out.

When DD was tiny, we just swaddled in a blanket (A+A) and would wrap a second blanket around her if it was really cold. At about 10 weeks, we transitioned to a Halo sleep sack (cotton) that had swaddle "wings" - loved it because it allowed us to transition DD out of the swaddle. Now we use a Baby DeeDee sleep sack, which is my favorite so far because it's really warm and cuddly.

If you are in doubt re: weather, I would do cotton. It's easy to dress your baby warmly under a cotton sleep sack if it's cold, and cotton gives you more longevity in shoulder seasons.

We have both. Our LO used cotton Summer Infant SwaddleMes once she was a few weeks old - before then, she was too little and the fabric bunched up. Once it got cold, we switched her into the fleece Halo swaddle-sacks. We really like both - the fleece is WARM though, especially if your baby is wearing fleece jammies, too. But we're in Canada...

For swaddling A&A blankets and then the A&A sleep sacks. We live in PA so it does get cold, but DS (and now this baby seems to be the same) got hot quickly that anything thicker made him miserable.

We had some of the fleece halo sacks but he sweated in them. We also tried the summer infant SwaddleMe's but he could break out of them instantly and the A&A blankets worked so much better.